Our Post-Graduate Emergency Medicine Advanced Practice Clinician Residency Program

Our Program

Residents are hired as Advanced Practice Clinicians in the Bassett Healthcare Network's Department of Emergency and Trauma Services.

Mission Statement

The mission of Bassett Healthcare Networks Emergency Medicine Advanced Practice Clinician Residency Program is to prepare graduates to practice in higher acuity emergency medicine settings and function at a more independent level by providing them with a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of emergency medicine and a broader procedural skill set.

Program Goals

Residents will gain competency in caring for the acutely ill by participating in weekly didactic sessions offering lecture-based learning, case discussions, procedural simulation, mock codes, and ultrasound education. They will broaden their knowledge by spending a significant portion of their time working directly in the emergency department, as well as rotating through a number of other specialties.

Program Outline

• Each class starts in August and runs 12 months
• Interviews are generally held May / June for the upcoming year

Didactics

Weekly didactic sessions are held over zoom and also in-person in the Active Learning Center at Bassett Medical Center. Didactic sessions include power point lecturing, case discussions, interactive question and answer sessions. Sessions in the active learning center focus on mock codes, procedural simulation and ultrasound education. Didactic topics are taken from the 2019 Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine.

Clinical Schedule

Residents spend 35 weeks working in the emergency department with occasional shifts in one of our convenient care locations. Emergency Department locations include Bassett Medical Center, Little Falls Hospital, and A.O. Fox Hospital. While working in the emergency department, they work alongside a physician but are expected to see and manage their own patients.

Residents will spend 17 weeks rotating outside of the emergency department.

Outside rotations include:

• Pediatrics with time in newborn nursery
• General surgery
• OB
• ENT
• Orthopedics
• Intensive care unit
• Anesthesia
• Cardiology
• Plastic surgery / hand surgery

Resident Benefits

• Attendance at The Difficult Airway Course will be covered
• Virtual access to Basic EM Boot Camp
• Certification in ACLS, PALS, ATLS will be covered
• $2,000 CME stipend
• 2 weeks vacation